Do you want to make a real difference as Psychosocial Substance Misuse Lead? Your skills and compassion could be what we need to help support individuals in their recovery.
We have an exciting opportunity to work within our multi-disciplinary teams within HMP Dovegate. We are looking for an experienced Psychosocial Substance Misuse Team Lead who will be part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team within the prison.
HMP Dovegate is a local remand cat B prison that holds 1200 male offenders, both on remand and convicted of varying offences.
As the Psychosocial Lead, you will work alongside the Team Manager and will manage and supervise Band 5 Recovery Workers. You will have a deep understanding of substance misuse and delivering effective treatment pathways. You will also lead on Psychosocial Interventions within the team and take an active role in the prison's Drug Strategy whilst fostering effective working relationships with key stakeholders. You will need to be confident in managing a caseload of people with complex needs and offer supervision, support, and guidance to other members of the team.
Main Duties of the Job
You will demonstrate skill and experience of providing evidence-based psychosocial interventions supporting service users to make positive changes towards recovery. You will have the ability to apply your skills and interventions to the care of service users with mild to moderate mental health needs that often co-exist with substance misuse needs. You will be highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire. You will supervise recovery workers to manage complex caseloads and manage group delivery and adherence to pathways. You will have excellent time management skills to organise workload within a busy prison site. You will be enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment. You will work to assist service users to progress through their sentence and onto their resettlement in the community. You will work in a fully multi-disciplinary team to provide varied and comprehensive interventions in-line with the stepped care model. The team includes RMNs, RLDN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Psychosocial Workers, and team administrators. You will take an active role in the prison's Drug Strategy whilst fostering effective working relationships with HMIP, prison colleagues, and other stakeholders. You will be able to produce reports and deliver information in relation to service delivery to senior management and key stakeholders. About Us
Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families, and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health, or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high-quality, committed, and inclusive care, realizing all the benefits a modern NHS organization can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the well-being of our people, both staff and service users, is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive well-being and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team! Job Responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of job role and requirements. Main responsibilities include: To manage a multi-disciplinary team in a custodial environment ensuring a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service is delivered in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and MPFT. Ensure a full range of psychosocial interventions that motivate and support service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-oriented substance misuse treatment service. To be responsible for the provision of a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination, and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment. To effectively supervise liaison and develop links with partner agencies to provide a through-care service for prisoners from the point of entry into the prison system to release into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health, well-being, and social functioning of Service Users is improved. To contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy. To be responsible for implementing Inclusion policies, protocols, SOPs, and developing LOPs in conjunction with the clinical prescribing team and mental health team. Person Specification
Qualifications
Professional Qualification (Degree and Post Graduation or equivalent) and/or Relevant experience in a comparative setting inclusive of management experience. Experience
Experience of working with substance misuse. Experience of managing a multidisciplinary team. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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You will demonstrate skill and experience of providing evidence-based psychosocial interventions supporting service users to make positive changes towards recovery. You will have the ability to apply your skills and interventions to the care of service users with mild to moderate mental health needs that often co-exist with substance misuse needs. You will be highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire. You will supervise recovery workers to manage complex caseloads and manage group delivery and adherence to pathways. You will have excellent time management skills to organise workload within a busy prison site. You will be enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment. You will work to assist service users to progress through their sentence and onto their resettlement in the community. You will work in a fully multi-disciplinary team to provide varied and comprehensive interventions in-line with the stepped care model. The team includes RMNs, RLDN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Psychosocial Workers, and team administrators. You will take an active role in the prison's Drug Strategy whilst fostering effective working relationships with HMIP, prison colleagues, and other stakeholders. You will be able to produce reports and deliver information in relation to service delivery to senior management and key stakeholders. About Us
Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families, and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health, or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high-quality, committed, and inclusive care, realizing all the benefits a modern NHS organization can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the well-being of our people, both staff and service users, is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive well-being and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team! Job Responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of job role and requirements. Main responsibilities include: To manage a multi-disciplinary team in a custodial environment ensuring a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service is delivered in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and MPFT. Ensure a full range of psychosocial interventions that motivate and support service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-oriented substance misuse treatment service. To be responsible for the provision of a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination, and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment. To effectively supervise liaison and develop links with partner agencies to provide a through-care service for prisoners from the point of entry into the prison system to release into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health, well-being, and social functioning of Service Users is improved. To contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy. To be responsible for implementing Inclusion policies, protocols, SOPs, and developing LOPs in conjunction with the clinical prescribing team and mental health team. Person Specification
Qualifications
Professional Qualification (Degree and Post Graduation or equivalent) and/or Relevant experience in a comparative setting inclusive of management experience. Experience
Experience of working with substance misuse. Experience of managing a multidisciplinary team. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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